Research Guides: CHEM 357: Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry (HC) Spring 2019: Find Sources

PubMed

PubMed
Free database of biomedical and related life and behavioral sciences journal articles. Includes MEDLINE index and links to PubMed Central open access articles when available.

PubMed Tutorials

There are different ways to search in PubMed, each with their own benefits.

Example Using MeSH

Example Using Advanced Keyword Search

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar has the ability to do citation mapping. Click on "Cited by" (see below) to see article citations that cite the article at hand. The articles will necessarily be more recent and may give you more material on your topic.

SciFinder & Reaxys

Click into SciFinder for a guide on how to use it.

Scifinder
A core research tool for the chemical literature, indexing journal articles and patent records, as well as chemical substances and reactions. You can search by topic, author, and substances by name or CAS Registry Number, OR use the editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions.

Use of this database is restricted to the TriCollege community. You must set up a user name & password the first time you use this database.
Reaxys
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Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. Combined data from three sources: The Beilstein Database, The Gmelin Database, and The Patent Chemistry Database.

Additional Resources

Dictionary of Natural Products
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A comprehensive database of 170,000 natural products which includes: names and synonyms, formulae, chemical structures, CAS Registry Numbers, extensive source data, uses and applications, physical state, melting point, boiling point, pKa, and key literature citations, as well as a comprehensive type of compound classification scheme which brings together compounds that are biogenetically related. All information is searchable by text or by substructure.
PubChem
This resource provides information on the chemical structures and biological activities of small organic molecules. Includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Provides a search engine, compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.

ChemSpider
A database of chemical structures, ChemSpider can be searched by name or structure.
ChEBI
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds.
ChEMBL
The data resources in EBI Search include: nucleotide and protein sequences at both the genomic and proteomic levels; structures ranging from chemicals to macro-molecular complexes; gene-expression experiments; binary level molecular interactions as well as reaction maps and pathway models; functional classifications; biological ontologies; diseases; and comprehensive literature libraries covering the biomedical sciences and related intellectual property.
GenBank
GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), and GenBank at NCBI. These three organizations exchange data on a daily basis. Information on submitting data.